Amazon.com Inc. and book publisher Penguin Group reached an
agreement regarding the pricing of Penguin's electronic books, the
online retailer and book publisher said Wednesday.With the new
agreement, which both companies declined to detail, Penguin's
newest e-books will begin selling through...

Friends don't let friends wire-wrap. Do people still do this? Do you still do this? When's the last time you did some wire-wrap? Digi-Key still sells an assortment of wire-wrap wire and wrapping tools, including the simple little hand tool...

(Colorado State University) A Colorado State University electrical engineering graduate student has won the prestigious Theodore Maiman Student Paper Competition -- beating a pool of 944 candidates -- on the 50th anniversary of Maiman's invention of the laser.

A CNC machining company is a company that provides CNC machining services. There are several CNC machining services that are provided in the market today.
One of the most popular CNC machining services that are provided by a CNC machining company is the standard 3 axis CNC machining.
The...

(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Richard Radke is leading a new $1.4 million study to develop novel computer automation techniques that could reduce the prep time of a promising cancer-treatment technology from several hours to a few minutes....

TI’s System-Level ESD Protection Guide provides an overview of several types of our latest ESD protection devices for high-speed data rates and for diode array chips for ease of design. Application and end equipment devices are also listed.

The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it awarded
three contracts for its new air traffic control system worth a
total of up to $4.4 billion.Under the contracts, Boeing Co.,
General Dynamics Corp. and ITT Corp. will perform large-scale
demonstrations to see how procedures and...

(Virginia Tech) Wind turbine blades enjoy a steady wind but can be damaged by gust-induced vibrations. The researcher proposes to create tiny sensor patches that can be selectively placed in key locations where it is anticipated that damage will start. The patches are made of the same...

The head of Foxconn bowed deeply several times and apologized
Wednesday for a spate of suicides at the factory that makes Apple
iPods and iPhones, promising the electronics giant will try to stop
more deaths.But the usually media-shy executive, Foxconn Technology
Group Chairman Terry Gou,...

Researchers at GTRI are designing, fabricating and testing planar ion traps that can be more readily combined into large, interconnected trap arrays. In the future, these arrays may be used to create a useful quantum computer.

Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Wednesday
that China's weak enforcement of copyright laws has undermined
revenues and pushed the company to focus on markets elsewhere in
Asia.China accounts for between 15 percent and 20 percent of global
computer sales - and will overtake the...